On the morning of Saturday May twenty first Guest House hosted its second in well
run over addiction five K.
Run and walk two hundred participants gathered at the historic Scripps mansion in
Oriental unshipped for the start of the race.
For the. Runners and
walkers followed a path that took them on
a scenic run through the estate grounds and on to nearby roads money was raised to
registration fees and benefits guest house in their efforts to treat members of the
clergy battling various addictions the treatment center celebrated sixty years of
service the day before the five K.
Race the benefits gets us because we give
a number of scholarships away we call them scholarships but free care relative to
the priest or the the nuns
a come to us from their either archdiocese or their communities so we don't turn
around turn away anybody that needs our treatment services the building and grounds
that mean
a lot to get this building was with Sun by the scripts family was built in one
thousand twenty seven. We then were able to get it from the Archdiocese of Detroit
and it became
a place where we started our treatment many many years ago so people who come back
to us this weekend we have
a number of women religious or here for aftercare of the building has fourteen
bedrooms at it and this is where treatment started for
a number of the priest and women religious crossing the finish line first was like
Koreans own Alexander Pollock who also won Orient townships dragon dash on May
fifteenth Pollock finished with
a time of seventeen zero nine point nine The course was decently flat I don't know
I still felt drained after some of the small house so this is
a pretty free time for us maybe. The race was fun this lot of people. Do afterwards
and that's always great the first female to finish was Ashley true one of New
Hudson it was her first time taking part in this race I actually have
a lot of people I know that are. Great in recovery. Packs and really both people.
That get caught that's near and dear to me. What your opinion of the course and I
love day it's just enough paved roads and then just enough trail is beautiful and
this that mansion in the in was up in the bottom and it's sixty years of service
guesthouses treated more than eight thousand members of the clergy both male and
female for more information visit guest house or in Oriental this Joe Johns
reporting for Owen T.V. News.